Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 459,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives.

Our five businesses develop and deliver integrated services and solutions for our clients. Accenture Strategy combines deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Accenture Consulting provides industry experts with the insights and management and technology consulting capabilities to help transform the world’s leading companies. Accenture Digital combines our capabilities in digital marketing, analytics and mobility to help clients unleash the power of digital to transform their businesses. Accenture Technology includes global delivery capabilities as well as application services— spanning systems integration and application outsourcing. Accenture Operations provides business process services, infrastructure consulting, infrastructure outsourcing, security services and cloud services, including the Accenture Cloud Platform.

Akin Gump's Hong Kong office* offers legal services and counsel to international and pan-Asian US and international clients with interests in China and greater Asia. The Hong Kong office is also fully integrated into Akin Gump's firmwide system of cross-border, cross-practice collaboration – reflection and conduit of the knowledge, experience and values of the firm as a whole.

Our lawyers in Hong Kong, who are qualified in six jurisdictions – Hong Kong, England and Wales, the United States, Australia, India, and Ireland – have broad and deep experience counseling Asian and other international clients on private and public investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financial restructuring, funds formation and regulatory, securities and financial institutions litigation. As a function of Akin Gump's global collaborative system, our Hong Kong office is also a portal for Asian regional, US and international clients into a legal services network that is available around the clock. Consequently, Akin Gump's Hong Kong office also offers clients direct access to counsel in more than 85 practices linked across its offices worldwide.

Broadridge, a global fintech leader with over $4 billion in revenue and part of the S&P 500 index, provides communications, technology, data and analytics. Backed by global resources and on-the-ground presence across local markets, they help drive business transformation for clients with solutions for enriching client engagement, navigating risk, optimising efficiency and generating revenue growth.

Broadridge enables multi-asset post-trade processing in more than 70 countries and delivers over two billion shareholder communications each year.

For 20 years, Broadridge has connected people, technology and insights across Asia Pacific to help clients innovate day-to-day and at scale. Their experience, global scale and strong local presence, as well as investments in new innovative technologies such as blockchain, AI and cloud computing help clients turn disruption into growth opportunities.

Founded in 1898, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second oldest business school in the United States and widely considered one of the world’s leaders in the field of management education. Chicago Booth faculty have made major contributions to the study of economics, financial markets, behavioral finance, branding, big data, the sociology of organizations and a host of other topics. As an innovator in management education, Chicago Booth was the first business school to offer a PhD in Business, the first to offer an Executive MBA program and the first to have a Nobel Prize winner on its faculty. It was also the first school to open independent campuses on three continents.

In Hong Kong, Chicago Booth offers its Executive MBA program and a selection of non-degree executive education short courses. All programs taught in Hong Kong are taught by Chicago Booth faculty and lead to the same degree or certification as our programs in Chicago. Booth faculty also work closely with a variety of organizations to develop customized corporate professional development programs to help build the next generation of leaders.

Booth’s Executive MBA program in Hong Kong is offered in modular format - allowing students to continue to work while they study. The program takes 21 months from start to finish and leads to a University of Chicago MBA degree. The program attracts students from throughout the region and from a wide range of industries and functions.

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value by putting ideas into action for real estate occupiers and owners. Cushman & Wakefield is among the largest real estate services firms with 48,000 employees in approximately 400 offices and 70 countries. Across Greater China, there are 20 offices servicing the local market. The company won four top awards in the Euromoney Survey 2017 in categories of Overall, Valuation, Agency Letting/Sales and Research in China. In 2017, the firm had revenue of $6.9 billion across core services of property, facilities and project management, leasing, capital markets, advisory and other services.

Founded in 2004, Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what's going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.

Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital (GHK) is a state-of-the-art private hospital committed to providing Hong Kong people with high-quality and accessible healthcare services. Located at Wong Chuk Hang on Hong Kong Island South, GHK provides 500 beds and a comprehensive range of clinical services spanning more than 35 specialties and subspecialties.

GHK is a joint venture between Parkway Pantai Limited, one of Asia’s largest integrated private healthcare groups, and NWS Holdings Limited. The University of Hong Kong is GHK’s exclusive clinical partner, helping to build, promote and implement strong clinical governance at GHK.

GHK is the only private hospital in Hong Kong offering 2-bedded standard rooms. It is also the first private hospital in Hong Kong to offer all-inclusive and fixed-price medical packages as part of its efforts to provide price assurance and transparent pricing structure.

Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people connect with information. Google’s innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top Internet property and its brand one of the most recognized in the world.

EMBA-Global Asia was designed specifically for globally-focused executives and managers who seek to deepen their understanding of both Western and Eastern business perspectives and who are passionate about the opportunities offered by Asia's rapid economic development. EMBA-Global Asia provides a collaborative learning environment in which a diverse group of executives debate theories, discuss cases and share experiences. The timetable enables highly-focused learning, minimising time spent away from the office and ensuring optimum learning impact. Offered by London Business School, Columbia Business School and The University of Hong Kong, EMBA-Global Asia is internationally recognized as one of the world’s top Executive MBA programmes and was ranked World No.2 by the Financial Times in 2017.

Organised into five modules, where students take courses one week per month, the programme can be completed in 16-20 months. The first three modules build core business skills and the final two modules are completed with electives that students may choose to take at any of the three partner schools.

Renowned faculty from three of the world’s top business schools combine to operate at the intersection between theory and practice, conducting cutting-edge research that has a real-world impact on the understanding and practice of international business today.

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 230,000 organizations around the world, Iron Mountain boasts a real estate network of more than 85 million square feet across more than 1,400 facilities in 53 countries dedicated to protecting and preserving what matters most for its customers. Iron Mountain’s solutions portfolio includes records management, data management, cloud services, document management, data centers, art storage and logistics, and secure shredding to help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including critical business documents, electronic information, medical data and cultural and historical artifacts.

Iron Mountain’s footprint in Asia includes a network of more than 50 facilities across China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines and Indonesia, serving the storage and information management needs of around 10,000 customers with services for records information management, data storage, document imaging and secure destruction.

Founded in 1865, Malvern College is a leading co-educational boarding and day school based in Malvern, Worcestershire, U.K. Together with its associated primary school, The Downs Malvern, it provides quality education for both boys and girls aged 3 to 18 years old. Thanks to its academic rigor and emphasis on holistic education, Malvern College has produced renowned alumni including Prime Ministers, Nobel Prize winners, as well as famous authors including C.S. Lewis, author of the Chronicles of Narnia. Malvern College Hong Kong (MCHK), adjacent to the Hong Kong Science Park, is Malvern College’s fourth overseas campus. Inheriting Malvern College’s ethos, MCHK strives to be a leading International School in Hong Kong. In the UK Malvern College has gained a reputation for being one of the most highly regarded IB schools in the country and MCHK seeks to follow this example by extending its international curriculum to both the Primary and Secondary levels. By combining a culture of academic excellence with an array of creative and sporting opportunities, together with outstanding pastoral care, MCHK will inspire and empower pupils not only to fulfill their potential, but to exceed it! Malvern College’s Pre-School in Hong Kong opened in Coronation Circle, Southwest Kowloon, in August 2017. Both schools will carry Malvern’s inclusive, personalized philosophy of nurturing every child’s individual strengths and abilities, guided by talented, dedicated and qualified teachers.

MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), through its subsidiaries and affiliates (“MetLife”), is one of the world’s leading financial services companies, providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to help its individual and institutional customers navigate their changing world. Founded in 1868, MetLife has operations in more than 40 countries and holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. For more information, visit www.metlife.com.

PayPal was incorporated in Delaware in 2015 and is a leading technology platform company that enables digital and mobile payments for consumers and merchants worldwide. Our vision is to democratize financial services and our goal is to increase our relevance for consumers and merchants to manage and move their money anywhere, anytime. Our combined payment solutions, including our PayPal, PayPal Credit, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, and Paydiant products, compose our proprietary Payments Platform. PayPal operates a two-sided proprietary global technology platform that links our 254 million merchants
and consumers around the globe to facilitate the processing of payment transactions. We enable consumers to safely exchange funds with merchants using a variety of funding sources and offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, and instant access to funds. Through PayPal, consumers engage in cross-border shopping and merchants extend their global reach while reducing the friction in cross-border trade.

Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, makes its customers more productive and the world more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs about 21,000 people globally serving customers in more than 80 countries.

The Rockwell Automation legacy is marked by technology leadership and innovation. In 1903, Lynde Bradley and Dr. Stanton Allen formed the Compression Rheostat Company, renaming it the Allen-Bradley Company in 1910. In 1985, Rockwell International Corp. purchased Allen-Bradley. In the 1990s, the company launched its Rockwell Software business, the Logix control platform and the Integrated Architecture system. In 2002, Rockwell International Corp. changed its name to Rockwell Automation. Today, the company is a global provider of industrial automation power, control and information solutions that help businesses achieve a competitive advantage. It has been serving Asia Pacific customers for 30 years.

One university with limitless global opportunities.

SCAD is one university — offering degrees in Atlanta and Savannah (Georgia), Hong Kong, and online via eLearning, with additional study abroad opportunities in Lacoste (France) and other locations. Each SCAD location provides a new experience, and students can choose to study in any location, at any quarter during their education. Find your muse in Lacoste or lose yourself in the amazing culture of Hong Kong. Get a taste of the fast life in Atlanta or fall in love with the southern charm of Savannah. You can even choose your own setting and enjoy full access through our eLearning environment.

Within its UNESCO award-winning campus, SCAD Hong Kong offers 22 bachelor’s and master’s programs – all being fully-accredited locally and in the US – with a handful of them winning the best of recognitions and accolades in their respective fields, such as interior design, fashion design, animation and user experience (UX) design.

SCAD exists to prepare talented students for professional careers. Its efforts in career preparation are unparalleled, as witnessed in the unique SCADpro, which allows students to work directly with the world’s best commercial organizations as part of their academic experience. 99% of the 2017 SCAD alumni are employed or pursuing further education within ten months of graduation.

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is one of the world's leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, including investment servicing, investment management and investment research and trading. With $29 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $2 trillion* in assets under management as of September 30, 2016, State Street operates in more than 100 geographic markets worldwide, including the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. For more information, visit State Street’s website at www.statestreet.com

*Assets under management were $2 trillion as of September 30, 2016. AUM reflects approximately $40 billion (as of September 30, 2016) with respect to which State Street Global Markets, LLC (SSGM) serves as marketing agent; SSGM and State Street Global Advisors are affiliated.

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Tesla was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers who wanted to prove that people didn’t need to compromise to drive electric – that electric vehicles can be better, quicker and more fun to drive than gasoline cars. Today, Tesla builds not only all-electric vehicles but also infinitely scalable clean energy generation and storage products. Tesla believes the faster the world stops relying on fossil fuels and moves towards a zero-emission future, the better.

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is the number one major appliance manufacturer in the world, with approximately $21 billion in annual sales, 92,000 employees and 70 manufacturing and technology research centers in 2017. The company markets Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht, Jenn-Air, Indesit and other major brand names in nearly every country throughout the world. Asia region is headquartered in Hong Kong, operating in 5 clusters, i.e. China, India, HTKJ (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan), Southeast Asia and Oceania with 6 manufacturing locations, 2 technology centers, 2 Global Consumer Design Centers and a nationwide network of sales and service outlets throughout our Asia Region. Since 2014, Whirlpool Asia has won a series of significant design awards each year, including IF Design Award, IDEA and Reddot Design Award.